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								<h4 align="center"><strong>Twenty-One Facts on Ten Hills History</strong></h4>
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                                  <li class="widebullet"> Ten Hills was designated a CHAP historical district on July 17, 2001. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> Denise Koch, a TV Newscaster on Channel 13, lived in Ten Hills in the 1990s.</li>
                                  <li class="widebullet">The Hunting Hills Swim Club was opened in 1959.</li>
                                  <li class="widebullet">George Awalt built ranchers, split level and neo-colonial homes on the fringes of Ten Hills, following Baltimore City zoning change, in the 1950s and 1960s.</li>
                                  <li class="widebullet">Alfred Ramsay, an Attorney and President of BGE, lived in Ten Hills in the mid 20th century.</li>
                                  <li class="widebullet">Nottingham Road (by way of Atholgate Lane) and Chapelgate Lane (by way of Rock Glen Road) were extended to Frederick Road in 1960.</li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> By 1940, Ten Hills -The Country Suburb had become part of Metropolitan Baltimore, as other 19th century summer estates were developed into new housing subdivisions. Ten Hills safeguard of distance from town faded away with the trolley as the family automobile closed the gap of uniqueness, vision and an idea that long held true. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> In 1927 the ladies of the neighborhood, with an increased interest in civic improvements organized the Ten Hills Civic Association. This organization has remained instrumental in improving many of the neighborhoods streets, sidewalks, lighting, traffic, waste and garbage and mail service issues.</li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> Following the footsteps of other Women&rsquo;s Civic League of Baltimore, the Ten Hills Garden Club was formed in April 1933 and became a member of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland in 1940. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> Baltimore City annexed a large area of Baltimore County in March 1918; effective , January 1, 1919. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> Many of the cottages were designed by local well known architects. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> The Ten Hills Corporation was active selling both finished cottages and unimproved &frac12; acre lots to investors for new cottages between 1910 and 1940. Ten Hills-A Country Suburb, was a secluded community and a diversity of early 20 th century housing styles including Colonial revival, Arts and Crafts, Greek revival, Dutch Colonial revival, Spanish Mission revival and Sears and Roebuck kit homes in a natural setting. Steffey and his team worked closely with each new lot owner, their architect, and their builder to make his plan a reality. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> The Ten Hills Corporation began building cottages in the summer of 1910 with protective covenants to further protect the home owner&rsquo;s new investments, during Baltimore&rsquo;s pre-zoning era. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> Ten Hills was connected to down town Baltimore by a 26-minute trolley car ride on the Ellicott City line. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> Caughy and Company&rsquo;s visionary Charles Steffey, a realtor and developer, formed the Ten Hills Corporation and established the <em>Ten Hills-The Country Suburban subdivision</em>, November 23, 1909; and began building the Ten Hills Subdivision roads, water, sewer, electric and telephone line infrastructure in March 1910. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> The Chappell&rsquo;s Ten Hills 144-acre estate is purchased by Caughy and Company at a public auction on May 18, 1909, in the Catonsville area of Baltimore County. The public auction sale is the result of a family feud over the late Phillip S. Chappell&rsquo;s personal estate. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> A year-round farm was established by James E. Dorsey in 1829. H. Willis Baxley purchased the farm and farm house in 1855, and used the farm as a weekend summer estate. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> In 1865, Baxley leased his &ldquo; Bellevue&rdquo; Summer Estate to Phillip S. Chappell. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> Phillip Chappell&rsquo;s, son Thomas C. Chappell, purchased the summer estate from Baxley&rsquo;s Children in 1877. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> In the mid-1880&rsquo;s Thomas renamed his Bellevue Summer Estate &ldquo;Ten Hills,&rdquo; shortly before he left to practice law in New York City. The Ten Hills Chappell estate was all but abandoned between 1890 and 1909. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> Dorsey&rsquo;s farm house burned down on May 7, 1899. The farm house had been occupied by vagrants for several years. </li>
                                  <li class="widebullet"> The electric car line built along Edmondson Avenue, on the north boundary of Ten Hills opened in 1896; and ran from downtown to Rolling Road., and eventually to Ellicott City.</li>
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